Locket looks at retaining Chinsurah

Kolkata: BJP MP Locket Chatterjee is contesting against the sitting TMC MLA, Asit Mazumdar, at

Chinsurah

in Hooghly, which is going to polls on Saturday. Forward Bloc’s Pranab Kumar Ghosh is contesting here against heavyweight opposition candidates.

During the campaigns, Mazumdar has gone in for roadshows and public meetings, actor-turned-politician Chatterjee travelled in various modes of transport, from from bicycle to bullock carts and boats to local trains, for her outreach programmes.

Chinsurah had been a den of Forward Bloc since 1977, but TMC’s Mazumdar had first dented the fort in 2011 by defeating the then five time Left MLA Naren Dey by over 45,000 votes.